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|195| indeterminate of feeling; – but the doing does not go upon itself –25)
25) In the margin: α) giving names, the universal of this sphere β) activity, being-for-itself, memory; inward efficacy γ) being in and for itself. The I reflects upon its doing, i.e. reflects itself out of it, and makes it its object; – the next product is that we have knowledge by heart of something; but not yet inward knowledge – the I is being – wholly incomplete external product; the whole is α) the fixed relation which is posited by the I, and it is fixed because it is so through the same; it is necessity, memory is becoming of thought, becoming of the non-sensuous object; i.e. α) which is no longer image β) in which the singularity of the name is extirpated. The labour, own doing, is singularity, order likewise the self; the I is objective to itself as multiplicity, – for its doing is movement, distinguishing, – it is itself the order; – and the order of distinctions which are its own, remain enclosed in it – thing moments (thus in itself or for us) it is thinking intuiting, or intuiting thinking. They are not indifferent names, but moments, division in it itself; brought forth through labour, it has this product as object and at first as immediate; it is comprehending understanding, necessity of the understanding, explaining, searching for the cause of the effect; the sensuous is determined as an effect and the like, or it is for the I what it was for us in the name; the thing has as essence for the I something other than it is; it is merely a sign; but its meaning is not contingent, but is its essence; for it is universal, – the I looks upon the category, it comprehends, what it understands is the matter itself – but not because it understands, or [is] form of I-hood – but it understands the matter (the content of the thing doubled.) Understanding α) relation of opposed concepts β) unity of the same, ground; those have their substance in being; ground is sublated being. A) distribution; object is thing, the I is self, substance unity of the opposed determinations, which it distributes among several substrates B) In the thought of substance the thing itself becomes this self; substance and accidental property – in cause and effect both united, inspirited things; but their essence is the inspiriting; activity* goes to ground in the product * Above: mere form of self-standingness the cause
This occupation with itself is precisely this, to produce itself; – the reverse of making the thing into the I; holding fast the order is the
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